Face Off: Liberal And Conservative Democrats Huddle To Reach Public Option Compromise

No they LITERALLY should have done this 6 months ago. Whatever, better late than never.

Bah! Far too late in the process to be bringing up good ideas.

I wish I wasn't kidding, and not kidding on the square, but that's the Constitution the Founders brung us. The process of rounding up that last handful of votes necessary to get the big bills passed invariably makes the legislation worse, rather than better, from a public policy standpoint precisely because it requires acceding to the demands of people with ideological axes to grind or with purely local concerns or, of course, who've been coopted by some special interest. That's one big advantage that a two party parlimentary system has over ours, though multiparty parlimentary systems tend to have the same dynamic as we do, just through different means.

On the upside, conference reports do sometimes come out better than either of the bills passed by the two houses. Don't know that I'd hold out too much hope for that with this bill, but it does happen sometimes.

been cooked from the get go

But then, why bother? I mean, if Prez is not sincere about wanting to change the paradigm of health car delivery that will alone, (without the insane militarism) destroy our economy let alone shred our people by delivering the most expensive chop shop medecine ever practiced since Jack the Ripper retired.

And if he does mean to achieve something,k it's obvious he has to roll the blue dogs, which tgo me means reconciliation 9where, btw you must have a robust public option to justify the budget impact requirements of the Byrd Rule.